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Grandpa is up next, and Bart says to him that he has led an interesting life. “That’s a lie!” snaps Grandpa, “and you know it! But,” he admits, “I have seen a lot of movies.” And so his story is a retelling of King Kong, shown in black and white.

Treehouse of Horror episode: 3
Year: 1992
Season: 4
Segment: 2 of 3
Segment title: “King Homer”
Writer(s): Al Jean & Mike Reiss, Jay Kogen & Wallace Wolodarsky, Sam Simon, Jon Vitti
Characters:
Main: Homer, Mr. Burns, Smithers, Marge
Supporting: Barney, Lenny, Carl, Charlie (? - occasional worker see at the plant), Otto
Homage to? King Kong
Basic premise: Mr. Burns captures King Homer and brings him back to exhibit him, but he breaks loose and wreaks havoc.
Best quotes: Burns: “What do you think, Smithers?”
Smithers: “I think women and seamen don’t mix, sir.”
Burns: “Pshaw! We all know what you think!”

Carl: “ I heard we’re going to Ape Island.”
Lenny: “Yeah, to capture a big ape. I wish we were going to Candy Apple Island.”
Charlie(?): “Candy Apple Island? What have they got there?”
Carl: “Apes. But they’re not so big.”

Marge: “Will I come too?”
Burns: “Of course! We couldn’t dream of going without the bait - ah, that is, the bait-hing beauty. The bathing beauty. Well I covered that up pretty well.”

Marge: “What is he saying?”
Burns: “Uh, he’s saying we wouldn’t dream of sacrificing the blue-haired woman!”

Lenny: “Hey come on Homer, cut it out! Quit eating me!” (Carl shoots at Homer, hits Lenny in the shoulder) “Ow! Nice shot, Carl!”

Burns: “Nice work, Smithers! When we get back, I’m giving you a raise.” (Homer eats him) “Oh well.”

Marge: “I think you’re making him angry.”
Reporter: “Come on! What’s he gonna do? Run amuck in downtown Springfield?”

Flight leader, as they wait for Homer to ascend the building: “He’s sure taking his sweet time!”
Other pilot: “Better refuel.”

Marge: “He’s not dead!”
Burns: “No, but his career is.”

Type of ending: Upbeat but silly

Synopsis: Follows the basic story of the movie. Mister Burns is a big game hunter/entrepreneur who goes to Ape Island to capture the legendary Homer. Using Marge as bait he lures the huge beast away and knocks him out with gas, then has him transported back to the USA, where he exhibits him. Homer runs amuck, captures Marge, makes a pathetic attempt to climb a tall building but gets no further than a few feet off the ground before he collapses. Later he and Marge marry.

Rating: B

Score
Story: 4
Laughs: 4
Originality: 2
Ending: 5
Longevity: 1
Total: 16

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Treehouse of Horror episode: 3
Year: 1992
Season: 4
Segment: 3 of 3
Segment title: “Dial Z for Zombies”
Writer(s): Al Jean & Mike Reiss, Jay Kogen & Wallace Wolodarsky, Sam Simon, Jon Vitti
Characters:
Main: Bart, Lisa, Homer, Marge, Maggie
Supporting: Flanders, Skinner, Martin Prince, Dolph, Jimbo, Curny, Krusty, Sideshow Mel, Willy, Barney

Homage to? Night/Return of the Living Dead and every zombie movie or TV series you've ever watched
Basic premise: When Bart and Lisa try to resurrect their beloved cat, the spell goes a little wrong and suddenly Springfield is overrun with zombies.

Best quotes:
Book (on Bart opening it, phantom faces leering out of its pages): “Evil! Evil! Bad! Beware!”
Bart (slamming book closed): “Cool!”
Book (faces from within): “Ow! Ouch! Ow!”

Bart (reading): “Let’s see, what we got? How to get your skeletons their whitest, selling your soul in a buyer’s market…”

Lisa; “Bart! You cast the wrong spell! Zombies!”
Bart: “Please, Lisa: they prefer to be called the living impaired!”

Willy (patting down a grave): “There! Pretty as a picture.” (Zombies emerge from the grave) “Aaah! Zombies!” (Zombies shuffle off, Willy pats down grave again) “There! Pretty as a picture!”


Lisa and Bart: “Dad! Dad! We did something really bad!”
Homer: “Did you wreck the car?”
Lisa and Bart: “No.”
Homer: “Did you raise the dead?”
Lisa and Bart: “Yes.”
Homer: “But the car’s okay?”
Lis and Bart: “Yes.”
Homer: “All right then.”

Skinner: “Martin Prince to my office. And bring that big, juicy chess club brain of yours along with you!”

Homer: “Spare my family! Take me! Take me!”
(Zombies gather around, walk off annoyed at there being no brain to consume).

Flanders: “Hey Simpson! I’m feeling a mite peckish. Mind if I nibble on your ear?”
Homer shoots him with a shotgun.
Bart: “Dad! You killed the zombie Flanders!”
Homer: “He was a zombie?”

Homer (shooting): “Take that, Washington! Eat lead, Einstein! Show’s over, Shakespeare!”

Zombie, getting back into grave: “Excuse me, I’m John Smith.”
Other zombie: “John Smith, 1882?”
Zombie: “My mistake.”

Type of ending: Ironic

Synopsis: Trying to do a book report for school (his first attempt, Baby’s First Book, being deemed not to have fulfilled the brief by his teacher) Bart comes across an occult section in the library, where he finds a book of spells. Arriving home, he finds Lisa pining for the loss of their pet cat, Snowball, and looks in the book for a spell to bring her back to life. They go to the graveyard, but the spell instead raises all the dead. Springfield is now in the midst of a zombie attack. Clever touch there when Bart is raising the dead, he has a copy of Michael Jackson’s Thriller on his head. Also clever when Homer points a shotgun at the screen and yells “To the book depository!” I mean, it’s not Texas, but the meaning is pretty clear. Anyway eventually Bart reverses the spell and the zombies go back to their graves. Clever commentary at the end, when, as they all sit watching TV, Marge says “I’m sure glad we didn't all turn into mindless zombies!” and Bart says “Shh! TV!” Homer then remarks “Man fall down. Funny.” And they all grunt.

Rating: A

Score
Story: 8
Laughs: 7
Originality: 3
Ending: 5
Longevity: 2
Total: 25

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In the run-up to Halloween, what could be more appropriate than daily shots of The Treehouse of Horror? Let's go!

Introduction: None
Derivation: A walk through paintings which all have a story to tell, in a homage to Rod Serling’s Night Gallery. Bart is your guide.

Tombstones
Elvis: accept it
A balanced budget
Subtle political satire
TV violence

Treehouse of Horror episode: 4
Year: 1993
Season: 5
Segment: 1 of 3
Segment title: “The Devil and Homer Simpson”
Writer(s): Greg Daniels and Dan McGrath
Characters:
Main: Homer, Flanders
Supporting: Marge, Bart, Lisa, Lionel Hutz
Homage to? The Devil and Daniel Webster
Basic premise: Homer sells his soul for a donut; Marge tries to trick the devil into releasing him from his contract.
Best quotes:
Homer: “Don’t panic: remember your emergency training.” (Opens manual, into which is cut a deep box shape; reads note - Dear Homer, IOU one emergency donut, signed Homer) “Damn! He’s always one step ahead!”

Homer: “You’re the devil?”
Flanders: “Always the one you least suspect eh?”

Burns: “Hmm. Who’s that goat-legged fellow? I like the cut of his jib.”
Smithers: “Prince of Darkness, sir. He’s your eleven o’clock.”

Flanders/Devil: “Oh, you Americans, with your due process and fair trials! This is always so much easier in Mexico!”

Flanders/Devil: “Hey Bart.”
Bart: “Hey.”

Demon: “So, you like donuts eh?”
Homer: “Uh-huh.”
Demon: “Well, have all the donuts in the world! Ha ha ha ha!”
(As Homer finishes the last donut in the world)
Homer: “More.”
Demon: “I - I don’t understand it. James Coco (?) went mad in fifteen minutes!”

Type of ending: Ironic and funny
Synopsis: When a true emergency strikes, Homer knows what to do. No donuts left, as Lenny and Carl have eaten them all (and thrown some at Grampa for kicks) but he has an emergency donut in his manual. When he finds that he earlier ate this, he whines that he would sell his soul for a donut, and who should appear but Flanders as the Devil, ready to seal the deal. Homer later realises though that the contract doesn’t fall due until or unless he finishes the donut, and determines never to do so. But of course, this is Homer and these are donuts, so he has no chance, and when he eats the last crumb Flanders pops up to take his soul. Funny when Homer, doomed to Hell, gets stuck in the floor as Flanders tries to get him pulled down.

Lisa challenges the Devil to allow Homer one chance to save his soul - due process, which Flanders is not happy about (well, he wouldn’t would he, being a Republican?) but has no choice but to agree to. Homer must spend one day in Hell while arrangements are made, and at midnight the trial begins. When Marge shows the jury a note from Homer in which he pledges his soul to her forever, they rule in favour of her and the Devil is thwarted.

Nevertheless, Homer doesn’t get off scot free, having his head turned into a donut. Naturally, he keeps trying to eat it.
Rating: A+

Score
Story: 5
Laughs: 5
Originality: 2
Ending: 5
Longevity: 2
Total: 19

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Treehouse of Horror episode: 4
Year: 1993
Season: 5
Segment: 2 of 3
Segment title: “Terror at five and a half feet”
Writer(s): Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein
Characters:
Main: Bart, Milhouse
Supporting: Skinner, Otto, Uder, Willy, Hans Moleman, Ralph Wiggum, Kang, Kodos, Jimbo, Flanders, Martin Prince, Sherri, Terri, Wendell

Homage to? Twilight Zone episode “Terror at 20,000 feet”
Basic premise: The school bus goes out of control, and Bart and Milhouse see a tiny creature outside, tearing parts off the bus.
Best quotes:

Otto: “I don’t see anything.”
Milhouse: “Wait a minute! Who’s driving the bus?”
Otto: “Ooh! Uno momento, por favor!”

Skinner: “Now I’ve gotten word that a child is using his imagination, and I’ve come to put a stop to it.”

Skinner: “Pull, Willy! Pull!”
Willy: “I’m doin’ all the pullin’, ye blouse-wearin’ poodle-walker!”

Flanders: “Oh my lord! It’s some sort of hideous monster! Oh isn’t that cute? He’s trying to claw my eyes out!”

Type of ending: Downbeat/ Horrific
Synopsis: As the school bus proceeds through heavy rain, Bart looks out the window and sees a tiny monster tearing at the outside, ripping holes in the metal, pulling out wires etc. He tries to convince Otto, Skinner, and everyone else on the bus but nobody can see the creature except him. Eventually he decides to take matters into his own hands, and grabs an emergency flare (wait, what? What is a school bus doing with emergency flares on board? It gonna go sailing on the sea or something? Emergency flares, with excitable children around? Great idea!) and throws it at the creature, knocking it off the bus where it’s found and picked up by Flanders.

When the bus finally stops everyone can see how badly it’s damaged, and nobody but Bart knows why. He’s being taken to a mental institution when the creature taps on the rear window of the ambulance, holding up Flanders’ head.

Rating: A -

Score
Story: 4
Laughs: 3
Originality: 2
Ending: 5
Longevity: 1
Total: 15


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Treehouse of Horror episode: 4
Year: 1993
Season: 5
Segment: 3 of 3
Segment title: “Bart Simpson’s Dracula”
Writer(s): Bill Canterbury
Characters:
Main: Bart, Lisa, Mr. Burns, Homer
Supporting: Smithers, Milhouse, Marge, Maggie, Kent Brockman, Chief Wiggum, Grampa,
Janey, Martin, Ralph, Lou, Eddie

Homage to? Bram Stoker’s Dracula (the movie) and also of course the novel; The Lost Boys
Basic premise: Mister Burns is a vampire
Best quotes:

Kent Brockman: “Another local peasant has been found dead, drained of his blood with two teeth marks on his throat. This cape was found at the scene (picture shows a black cape with the word DRACULA on it) Police are baffled.”
Wiggum: “We think we’re dealing with some sort of supernatural being, most likely a mummy. As a precaution, I’ve ordered the Egyptian wing of the Springfield museum destroyed.”

Homer: “Lisa, vampires are make-believe, just like elves, gremlins and eskimos.”

Homer: “It sure was nice of Mr. Burns to invite us for a midnight dinner in his country house in… PENNSYLVANIA!”

Burns: “Ah welcome, come in. Excellent. Fresh victims for my ever-growing army of the undead!”
Smithers: “Sir, you have to let go of the button -”
Burns: “Son of a bi -”

Lisa: “Eww! Dad, this is blood!”
Homer: “Correction: free blood!”

Bart: “Hello mother, hello father. I missed you during my uneventful absence.”

Homer: “Oh Lisa, you and your stories. Bart’s a vampire. Beer kills brain cells. Now let’s go back to that.. building … thingy … where our beds and TV… is.”

Grandpa: “Quick! We have to kill the boy!”
Marge: “How do you know he’s a vampire?”
Grandpa: “He’s a vampire? AAAAHHHH!”

Marge: “Homer, we’ve got to do something! Today he’s drinking people’s blood, tomorrow he could be smoking!”

Homer: “Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?”

Lisa: “You must drive this stake right through his heart.”
Homer: “Take that foul fiend!”
Lisa: “Dad, that’s his crotch!”
Burns: “Aaaagghh! You’re fired!”

Type of ending: Stupid, pointless and very annoying

Synopsis: Invited to a midnight dinner by Mr. Burns, the Simpsons quickly become suspicious (well, Bart and Lisa do) and uncover evidence that Homer’s boss is a vampire. Bart is turned, and then, Lost Boys-like, floats outside Lisa’s window and then turns her. Stupid ending where suddenly for some reason they all shout "Happy Halloween" and sing what appears to be "Auld Lang Syne" (?) as it snows outside?????
Rating: A (despite the ending)

Score
Story: 5
Laughs: 5
Originality: 2
Ending: 0
Longevity: 5
Total:17

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Rats. Missed yesterday. Oh well, have these two.

Introduction: Marge comes on as usual to warn everyone about how scary the show is, and that kids should not be allowed to watch it, then she is handed a note so say that in fact it’s so scary that Congress will not allow it to be shown, and so some old black-and-white western begins. This is then interrupted as Bart mimics the Controller from The Outer Limits. Homer then sees what he’s doing, and starts messing around with the waveforms.

Tombstones:

“Amusing tombstones” (they’re just not trying are they?)
However in addition to the tombstone, we get, as we travel through the cemetery, Mo hanging himself (or being hanged) and opening his eyes, Patti and Selma being burned as witches (and lighting their cigarettes from the flames), Skinner being guillotined while below him are the heads of Mrs. Krabappel, Wiggum and Willy and then Bart comes in, stomps them down in the basket, Skinner gives him the thumbs-up and Bart drops the blade. Finally the couch gag is the family coming in as zombies.

Treehouse of Horror episode: 5
Year: 1994
Season: 6
Segment: 1 of 3
Segment title: “The Shinning”
Writer(s): Bob Kushell
Characters:
Main: Homer, Bart, Maggie, Lisa, Marge
Supporting: Mr. Burns, Smithers, Groundskeeper Willy, Chief Wiggum, Kent Brockman
Homage to? The Shining duh
Basic premise: Mr. Burns has Homer and his family take care of his cabin in the mountains while he is away and while staying there Homer loses it and goes after his family. Other strange things happen. You know: it’s The Shining
Best quotes:

Burns, as blood pours out of the lift: “Hmm, that’s odd. Usually the blood gets off at the second floor!”

Willy: “You read ma thoughts! You’ve got the Shinning!”
Bart: “You mean the Shining?”
Willy: “Ssh! You wanna get sued?”

Burns; “Excellent! Cutting off cable TV and beer supply will ensure I get an honest winter’s work out of those people.”
Smithers: “Sir, did you ever stop to consider that maybe it was doing this which caused the other caretakers to go insane and murder their families?”
Burns: “Hmm. Perhaps. Tell you what: we come back and everyone’s slaughtered, I owe you a Coke!”

Homer: “So what do you think Marge? All I need is a title. I was thinking something along the lines of No TV and no beer make Homer something something.”
Marge: “Go crazy?”
Homer: “Don’t mind if I do!”

Marge (on radio): “Hello? Police? Help! My husband is on a murderous rampage! Over.”
Wiggum: “Oh, thank goodness that’s over. I was worried there for a minute.”

Homer: “Urge to kill fading, fading, fading, RISING, fading, gone.”

Type of ending: Funny and a little tragic

Synopsis: Hired by Burns as the caretakers for his mountain lodge retreat, the Simpsons settle in as the snow begins to fall. Groundskeeper Willy realises Bart has “the Shinning”, and tells him to call for him if ever he needs him. Finding that Burns has turned off cable TV and taken all the beer, Homer goes crazy and chases his family with an axe. Marge locks him in the pantry, where he’s happy eating everything until Mo, who had appeared as a ghost earlier and encouraged, read, intimidated him, into killing his family, drags him out, along with some other spectral figures (including Freddie Kruger) and send him on his murderous way again.

Bart calls Willy using the Shinning, but as soon as he arrives his would-be rescuer is killed by Homer, who then chases the family out into the snow. Marge finds a tossed-aside mini TV at the last moment, and reunited with his first love Homer’s murderous rage dissipates. Mind you, they all then end up watching the mini-TV and freezing to death, but you can’t have everything.
Rating: A++

Score
Story: 6 (Can’t be too high, as they’re basically copying King’s novel)
Laughs: 8
Originality: 2
Ending: 6
Longevity: 10
Total: 32


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Treehouse of Horror episode: 4
Year: 1994
Season: 5
Segment: 2 of 3
Segment title: “Time and Punishment”
Writer(s): Greg Daniels, Dan McGrath
Characters:
Main: Homer
Supporting: Marge, Lisa, Maggie, Bart, Flanders
Homage to? A Sound of Thunder, it says here.
Basic premise: After fixing his dodgy toaster Homer finds it is a time machine, and travels back to the time when dinosaurs ruled the earth. However while there he manages to change the future. Repeatedly.
Best quotes:
Homer: “I’ve travelled back to a time when dinosaurs weren’t just confined to zoos!”

Flanders: “Oh I see we have a negative Nellie in sector 2! I’m gonna have to ask the whole family to freeze and prepare for re-Neducation!”

Flanders: “Now, in case all that smiling that didn't cheer you up, there’s something that never fails: a nice glass of warm milk, a little nap and a total frontal lobotomy!”

Homer: “Hmm. Fabulous house, well-behaved kids, sisters-in-law dead, luxury sedan - Woo-hoo!”

Type of ending: Inconclusive
Synopsis: Having trouble with his toaster, Homer accidentally turns it into a time machine. He returns to the time of dinosaurs (yes, you’ve heard it before; I wrote it in the “basic premise” above, shut up) and kills a bug, which alters the future so that now Ned Flanders is the unquestioned master of the world, and everyone has to obey him. Going back to the past he tries to avoid killing anything, but sits on a fish coming out of the water - first mammal on earth I guess - and this time when he gets back to the present his family are all giants. Third time lucky; this time he sneezes and wipes out all the dinosaurs. On returning, everything is perfect, even better than before, except nobody seems to know what a doughnut is! Screaming, he runs off, as Marge notes “It’s raining again.” Raining doughnuts.

Next he goes wild, killing everything in sight, and after several returns where really weird things happen, he finds himself back in a more-or-less normal universe. Of course, his family all now have reptilian tongues, but as he says himself, close enough.
Rating: A

Score
Story: 6 (I haven’t read the Bradbury story but it’s clearly not an original episode)
Laughs: 4
Originality: 3
Ending: 5
Longevity: 2
Total: 20


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Damn it. Missed Sunday out. Oh well, here are two for today.

Treehouse of Horror episode: 4
Year: 1994
Season: 5
Segment: 3 of 3
Segment title: “Nightmare Cafeteria”
Writer(s): David X. Cohen
Characters:
Main: Bart
Supporting: Skinner, Lunchlady Doris, Martin Prince, Jimbo, Milhouse, Willy, Mrs. Krabappel, Mrs. Hoover, Mr. I can’t remember, the music teacher, Uder, Sherri, Terri, Lisa, Marge, Wendle
Homage to? Soylent Green
Basic premise: Skinner and the faculty begin eating the students
Best quotes:
Skinner: “Oh don’t worry about Uder! I have a gut feeling he’s around here somewhere. After all, isn’t there a little Uder in all of us? In fact, you might say we ate Uder, and he’s in our stomachs right now! Wait a minute: scratch that.”

Willy” I’m comin’ to save ye all!! “ (Get hit with an axe) “Aw, I’m really bad at this!”

Skinner: “I’m going to enjoy devouring you, Simpson. I believe I’ll start as you so often suggested, by eating your shorts!”

Type of ending: Stupid and annoying
Synopsis: With food for the cafeteria in short supply, Principal Skinner comes up with the idea of cooking the students. Bart and Lisa must save the say, by, um, well, see further. Good link with Willy rushing to save them and again being hit in the back by an axe, this time wielded by Skinner. Very annoyingly it turns out to be a dream, and then there’s a stupid dance routine with “fog that turns people inside out” and they dance to that tune “One, thrilling combination, every little step she takes” - you know the one. They change the lyric but it’s very irritating and a terrible way to end a story they clearly had no idea how to conclude.

Rating: B- (mostly for the awful ending)

Score
Story: 7
Laughs: 3
Originality: 5
Ending: 0
Longevity: 0
Total: 15







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Introduction: Headless horseman runs at the screen and throws his head (which turns out to be that of Krusty) at it; Krusty groans. Couch gag shows all the Simpsons hanged from the ceiling. Maggie sucks her soother.

Treehouse of Horror episode: 6
Year: 1995
Season: 7
Segment: 1 of 3
Segment title: “Attack of the 50-ft Eyesores”
Writer(s): John Schwartzwelder
Characters:
Main: Homer
Supporting: Lisa, Marge, Chief Wiggum, Bart, Flanders, Kent Brockman, Moe (mentioned)
Homage to?
Basic premise: Giant advertising figures come to life
Best quotes:

Otto (on seeing the giant devil mascot while driving the bus) : “Oh man! Another acid flashback! I’d hate to be driving the bus right now!”

Wiggum (after shooting a big tall guy): “Ah they’re not so tough!”
Lou: “Uh, chief, that wasn’t a monster. That was the captain of the high school basketball team!”
Wiggum: “Uh, yeah, but he was turning into a monster.”

Homer: “He came to life. Good for him!”

Type of ending: Meh

Synopsis: Having failed in his quest to get a “colossal doughnut” like the one Lard Lad holds outside the diner, Homer robs the model one and for some reason the figure comes to life, and so do the others on the strip. Marge thinks that once Homer gives Lard Lad back his doughnut all will be well, but she’s wrong; the icons continue to destroy the town. So Lisa visits the advertising agency who made them, and on the advice of the guy there, and with a jingle sung by Paul Anka telling people not to watch the figures, they all fall over, as advertising needs people to pay attention to it or it dies. Yeah. Right.

Rating: B

Score
Story: 5
Laughs: 3
Originality: 4
Ending: 1
Longevity: 1
Total: 14


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Treehouse of Horror episode: 6
Year: 1995
Season: 7
Segment: 2 of 3
Segment title: “Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace”
Writer(s): Steve Tompkins
Characters:
Main: Bart, Lisa, Willy
Supporting: Nelson, Milhouse, Sherri, Terri, Ralph, Skinner, Martin, Mrs. Krabappel, Lunchlady Doris, Homer, Marge, Chief Wiggum, Mrs. Wiggum, Flanders
Homage to? Oh now hold on, let me think…
Basic premise: Bart and Lisa are attacked in their dreams by Groundskeeper Willy
Best quotes:

Skinner: “There’s no mystery about Willy. He simply disappeared. Now, let’s have no more curiosity about this bizarre cover-up.”

Skinner (looking under cover at corpse of Martin Prince): “Better wheel him out of here; best the children don’t see.” (Steps on sheet, corpse revealed, kids scream) “Oh just get it out of here! NO! Not into the Kindergarten!! (More screaming).

Marge: “Kids, it’s about time we told you the truth and put your fears to rest. It’s a story of murder and revenge from beyond the grave!”

Marge: “It all started on the thirteenth hour of the thirteenth day of the thirteenth month. We were all there to discuss the misprinted calendars, which the school had purchased.”
Homer (in Marge’s retelling): “Lousy Smarch weather!” (Sees note on thermostat: DO NOT TOUCH - WILLY) “Do not touch Willy. Good advice!”

Lisa: “Bart! Don’t you realise what this means? Next time we fall asleep we could die!”
Grandpa: “Meh! Welcome to my world!”

Type of ending: Funny

Synopsis: Bart and Lisa both realise they are being attacked in their dreams by Groundskeeper Willy, who “disappeared mysteriously”. On checking at school, they find they are not the only ones: all the kids are being chased in their dreams, though Skinner insists there is nothing to worry about. Then Martin dies in his sleep while napping in class. Marge tells Bart and Lisa of the grisly death of Willy, who was accidentally fried in his own furnace, and swore to get revenge on the parents through their kids.

Bart goes into his dream to face Willy in a final showdown, and tells Lisa to stay awake so she can wake him up if things go wrong. But in the event, she falls asleep too and they’re both trapped with Willy till Maggie comes to the rescue.

Rating: B+

Score
Story: 5
Laughs: 4
Originality: 2
Ending: 4
Longevity: 5
Total:20


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